Rendering now, but not posting until it's done and uploaded. Just running commentary. And sorry about yesterday. I jumped a bit hard and fast there. Temporary insanity coming from too much time on the 'net at work.
Anyway, here's my first first into chisels and bits, and boy did I learn stuff. Other than what you see on that video, I spent a total of 20 minutes poking the mid with metaphorical sticks and doing some texture work. Clear glass textures are recommended for stained glass pixel art.
So, all week long, I had idea after idea for what I wanted to do here. From simple to the grandiose. And a lot of it had to do with how I thought the mod worked theoretically. The real world wasn't far from my theory, but little things killed the little things I fantasized about. So, I just winged it. I didn't even know what it was going to be until after I finished. Originally it was supposed to be the master bedroom, buy I don't see any reason to move from my cabin.
What it ended up being was a platform for take off and landing. You can stand on the center, and under the bits is an elevator block. Which you'll see me accidentally destroy and be unable to put back together in the video. Anyway, that block pops you down into the storage area I took to calling The Library, and back up to the platform to take off and glide somewhere.
There was one thing I did have planned, and that was the smiley face was gonna go somewhere. It was inspired by the floating slime island the distance, which is why the video starts there. Originally, it was going to be virtical and made of glass so you could see the smiling island through it, but I couldn't get the angle I envisioned with the moon in the right spot, so I just dropped everything at the last second just before the video starts. That face is the only thing I copied off the net. Everything else just... happened.
Those bits, man. That chisel is the most dangerous tool in modded Minecraft. So, so easy to click the wrong thing and just totally break something! Like the aforementioned elevator block. And counties times I clicked the block under the block I was working on, or patched up a hole but it wasn't all the way full and you can't find the one empty spot you need to fix the block again. And, to make things worse on myself, my sneak button is a toggled click on my Xbox controller, so I kept scrolling through the different shapes accidentally. I really had to get into a Zen mode by the end of this build. Really tested my patience sometimes.
But, it's so worth it. I don't know if it's the shaders or if the server/client mismatch on the config files was the reason why it doesn't glow at night in the video, but it does on my screen when I play. So, now I have this self-lit kinda neat lookin helipad to look down on every time I have to go get some inventory or something. It's not perfect, but I think it came out pretty neat. I haven't seen the full build with the shaders on yet, so I don't know if that'll help it hurt it. I had some really cool ideas I wanted to do but, this was a neat little surprise. I'll save my other ideas for something else in the future.
Realtime, 3 and a half hours. Video pushes 15 minutes. It's mostly raw playtime, though, so I don't know if it'll be all that fascinating for that long. You can probably skim through it if you're bored. Might have to skim past a night cycle or three. I couldn't even preview it, so I'll be seeing it for the first time, too.
-live take: really wishing I used lava instead of glowstone, and fixed the glow. But, there's always next vid.
And there it is, notification beeping in my ear at 3:13 in the morning....
The best is yet to come! Stay tuned.
